New Car Registratins

December 10, 1992|The Morning Call

Lehigh Valley residents registered 1,838 new cars in September, a 5.5 percent decrease from September 1991, R.L. Polk & Co. of Detroit reported recently. Lehigh and Northampton counties recorded declines of 4.2 percent and 16 percent, respectively. Carbon County had a 13.8 percent increase, Warren County was up 12.8 percent and Monroe County was up 3.5 percent. Year-to-date registrations in the Lehigh Valley fell 3.9 percent to 16,967 compared to the period in 1991. Other year-to-date figures showed there were 4,546 domestic car registrations and 1,936 import registrations in Lehigh County and 4,052 domestic and 1,573 imports in Northampton County.